People with severe mental illness, particularly racial minorities, face a much greater risk of having prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes, according to a new study at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The researchers suggest that all patients with severe mental illness be screened for diabetes.
The findings, published in the journal Diabetes Care, show that among more than 15,000 patients with severe mental illness, 28.1 percent had Type 2 diabetes compared with 12.2 percent...
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